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ViewsThursday, March 19, 2015 - 4:45pmPalestine Solidarity…Censored?Tonight, the Missouri History Museum was supposed to be hosting an event called “Ferguson to Ayotzinapa to Palestine: Solidarity and Collaborative Action.” The discussion was organized by the Washington University student group AltaVoz, in collaboration with several other community activist groups...Read more

ViewsTuesday, December 16, 2014 - 2:45pmNBC: Someday We Might Learn That Drones Kill CiviliansA critical look at US drone attacks is not the kind of thing you expect to see on a Sunday chat show, but that is what NBC 's Meet the Press gave viewers on December 14. Still, there were some problems. Anchor Chuck Todd explained at the beginning that Barack Obama's foreign policy has been drone-...Read more

ViewsTuesday, November 25, 2014 - 2:00pmBig Media’s Crummy Advice for DemocratsBefore anyone even knew just how badly the Democrats would get trounced in the 2014 midterm elections, some pundits were already sending the party a message: Be more like the Republicans. Now they don’t put it that way, exactly. The professional campaign watchers like to say instead that the...Read more

ViewsSaturday, November 15, 2014 - 10:45amDebating How—Not Whether—to Launch a New WarMoments after Barack Obama’s September 10 primetime address laying out a military plan to attack ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, CNN featured a debate between Republican Sen. John McCain and former White House press secretary Jay Carney. The somewhat contentious exchange went viral. “Carney,...Read more

ViewsFriday, November 14, 2014 - 9:00amObama's 'Hot Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric'?With that midterm election out of the way, media are spending even more time talking about the 2016 presidential race. And one of the themes is how Hillary Clinton will create distance from the Obama administration's record. Along those lines, Politico has a piece ( 11/11/14 ) by William Cohan that...Read more

ViewsWednesday, October 29, 2014 - 7:00amNonvoters Are People TooThere's plenty of chatter about the upcoming midterm elections out there–though, as the right-wing Media Research Center ( 10/22/14 ) recently reported, not very much on the high-profile network evening newscasts. But there's one common election-year observation that, while true, misses the point...Read more

ViewsFriday, October 24, 2014 - 3:15pmThe Big Problem With Time's Teacher-Bashing Cover StoryWith a cover that announces "Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher" alongside an image of a judge's gavel about to smash a fruit, you might suspect Time magazine ( 10/23/14 ) is doing some good old-fashioned teacher-bashing. You'd be right. There are a few problems with the...Read more

ViewsThursday, October 23, 2014 - 3:00pmChuck Todd, Militarism and Media DiversityTo his credit, NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd is doing interviews with some press critics; he spoke to NYU professor Jay Rosen ( 10/9/14) recently, and also to liberal watchdog group Media Matters ( 10/22/14 ). And some of his comments to the latter are revealing; Todd really wants to mix...Read more

ViewsWednesday, October 22, 2014 - 7:30amA 'Worthless and Whiny' Attack on a Genuine Journalistic HeroIn 1996, in the wake of his explosive "Dark Alliance" series for the San Jose Mercury News ( 8/18-20/96 ), the Washington Post was one of the major newspapers to attack Gary Webb ( FAIR Blog , 10/21/14 ). It's 2014, and they're still at it. Since the release of the film Kill the Messenger , there...Read more